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Monday, July 31, 2017

Trump's Cuba policy a solution in search of a problem

Last week, I spent a couple days in Havana, Cuba on a people-to-people trip. President Trump's new Cuba policy is a solution in search of a problem. As the Trump administration continues to work on rules to
implement its new Cuba policy, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control
issued clarifications on the U.S. interim policy, reported the Miami Herald.

When the President announced his new policy for the
island in Miami on June 16, OFAC said that the only category of authorized
travel by U.S. travelers that would be affected were individual
people-to-people trips. Trump said such trips would be prohibited because
travelers have used that category to disguise trips that are purely for
tourism, which the U.S. prohibits.

But in its new “Frequently Asked Questions” publication,
OFAC says: “The new policy will also impact certain categories of educational
travel as well as travel under support for the Cuban people.” It didn’t
elaborate.

The new FAQ also made it clear that people traveling to Cuba
legally under permitted travel categories wouldn’t have to apply for licenses.
Until the new rules are published, U.S. travelers may continue to visit Cuba
under 12 categories of permissible travel that were outlined during the Obama
administration.
Why wouldn't America want to have a relationship with a country 90 miles off its shore?
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